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Mapping JATS to RDF

Posted on December 20, 2012 by

JATS, the Journal Article Tag Suite, defines a vocabulary of XML elements and attributes used to describe the content and metadata of journal articles.  In this post, I describe the mapping of JATS to RDF, so that publishers’ XML article … Continue reading →

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‘Likes’ joins the semantic web: cito:likes

Posted on July 13, 2012 by

A ‘like’ button is a well-known feature in communication software such as social networking services, Internet forums, news websites and blogs that permits a user to indicate that he/she likes, enjoys or supports certain content.  Internet services that feature ‘like’ … Continue reading →

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Open Citations and Semantic Publishing

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

Given the renewed interest among publishers in the Open Citations Corpus, following the decisions by Nature Publishing Group, publisher of Nature, and by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of Science, to open their citation data for … Continue reading →

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Five Stars Ontology

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

To accompany today’s publication in D-Lib Magazine of the article The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles – a framework for article evaluation highlighted in the previous post, I have today also published The Five Stars Ontology, a simple ontology … Continue reading →

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Comments on the paper Ceci n’est pas un hamburger

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

Very VERY occasionally I read a paper that is so well written, and which addressed the points so accurately and so eloquently, that I rejoice.  The paper by Pettifer et al. entitled Ceci n’est pas un hamburger: modelling and representing … Continue reading →

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The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

Many people will be familiar with Tim Berners-Lee’s five stars of linked data, categorising the publication of data on the web in levels of increasing usefulness.  To complement these, I wish to propose the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles, … Continue reading →

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Like a kid with a new train set! Exploring citation networks

Posted on July 3, 2011 by

As part of the Open Citations Project, Alex Dutton recently completed a graphing plug-in for the Open Citations web site, that permits users to generate different kinds of graphs of citation networks by querying the Open Citation Corpus for a … Continue reading →

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